i have had to reinstall all packages/expansions again from LM but i seem to be missing presets and kits for the Taiko expansion that i know of so far. i have found the three voices in the hi hats and all drums listed as snares lol and although the title of the package/expansion is “Taiko Percussion” i have nothing showing or listed under the ‘perc’ tab lol
could someone be so kind as to remedy the installer to place things properly or maybe give me a copy of the kits and presets to see if THEY can find the kit pieces. i have found under each of the installed audio kit pieces the info.xml file is listing them as snares and all classified as BFD2 so i am not sure what is/has happened. maybe the old kits and presets call for the pieces as all snares or looks for the file name under snares. this is really strange because this is the only expansion i know of so far that is doing this being native BFD (haven’t looked at the 3rd party expansions thoroughly yet.) any help would be appreciated… really love my Taiko drums
finally found the taiko presets (and some others) @ C:\Program Files (x86)\BFD Drums\BFD2\System\Presets lol… so even after removing everything and reinstalling via the LM downloads i STILL have a mess with everything all over the place. apparently they used the old installers and changed to “BFD Drums” folder as opposed to “Fxpansion” so everything is being tossed around just like Rail and the lot did in the past. i’d suggest inMusic rework all the installers if they can. from the Gearslutz forum, here and other places… quite a few are having troubles pretty much the same as i am.
i appreciate the fact that inMusic has a small crew working on this and i also appreciate their efforts but it does not cancel out the fact this is a mess to say the least. hopefully in the future they have the source files and will completely make new installers for all expansions so possible future customers can avoid the headaches.
I seem to have the same problem still today. I bought the Epic Taiko Percussion expansion, installed it (twice now), and there are no kits found to load. Can anyone chime in with some instructions as to how I can get them to work properly? Maybe move the files to someplace?
The 1st question would probably be…is your BFD3 a migration …or Fresh Install?
If it is a New Install (Fxpansion Version of BFD3 Not previously installed) the Kits/Presets may be in the BFD2 System Folder.
I would add BFD2 paths and see if they show up…
Tools > Setup Content > Add BFD2 Paths.
If they still don’t show…copy/move or place the Folder in the BFD2 System folder into the BFD3 System Folder.
Move From
C:\ProgramData\BFD Drums\BFD2\System\Kits
C:\ProgramData\BFD Drums\BFD2\System\Presets
If it was a migration , then the next step is to start cleaning up the mess and moving to proper locations and deleting Fxpansion Folders,locations etc…otherwise you may end up with doubles triples etc especially if all your Kits/Presets are “loose” in their perspective Folder(s).
I converted all Presets/Kits/Pal to BFD3 Format and organized into Folders years ago.
Does the BFD Japanese Taiko Grooves Library show under the Grooves Drop Down?
I show (2) Presets and (2) Kits…94 BFD2 Groove Palettes…(2 also under Presets…1 for each Kit)
I included a FAQ link for more info and to confirm…unfortunately the Product description is for BFD Signature Snares Vol 1
Thanks. For the record, it was a clean install in the sense that I never owned BFD prior to v3. For future readers, the process I went through last night to figure it out was:
Try adding the BFD2 path (i.e., C:\Program Files (x86)\BFD Drums\BFD2\System) to the list of scanned paths in the preferences interface. That messed everything up.
Because that messed everything up, I removed all the existing libraries listed in my scan paths completely and re-added the root folder where I keep all my BFD3 content.
A re-scan at that point got me back to where I started and recovered from my mistake. Thank goodness!
I could then copy the files named JTP*.* from the three folders under that BFD2 path (viz., “Kits”, “Maps”, and “Presets”) to a completely new content folder which is on my data drive as a “sibling path” to the BFD3 content path.
With that done, I found I had two new kits showing up in the BFD3 interface: “JTP Taiko” and “JTP Taiko Low Tuning”. I could load those but found they didn’t have the right names for the kit pieces, nor were any of the presets showing up. But I was able to create my own presets easily enough with a bit of editing kit piece names in the UI.
Since then, I’ve been able to load my new presets and play the grooves I bought just fine. I might have to try what you’ve helpfully suggested–and thank you for that, knothardly–to see if that gets me more stuff.
I thought I’d come back to this post today when I discovered I was missing presets, kits, etc. from other expansions as well after buying some more during this cyber Monday sale (or whatever it was that cut the prices so much). The technique I described above did not fix my issues with the “Cocktail” expansion, so I had to search for a different solution. Toward that end, here’s the article that did it for me:
The TL;DR version is that I:
Choose “Tools | Setup content locations…” from the menu.
Choose the “Search folder…” button and tell it: C:\Program Files (x86)\BFD Drums\BFD2\System
That should find your BFD2 content. Then you can hit the button at the bottom to “Add BFD2 paths”.
NB: On macOS that folder should be /Library/Application Support/BFD Drums/BFD2/System/ instead.
I since removed the duplicate Japanese Taiko Percussion presets I had copied as mentioned, and now my BFD3 application seems to show me all my content correctly. Yay!